. >> reporter: i am adrian brown on a disputed island in the south china sea where, this time it's taiwan making waves in these troubled waters. ♪ ♪ >>> the hunt is onto find a suspected isil bomber seen say security camera at brussels airport. tuesday's bombings there and at a train station killed 31 people and injured 270 others. this is the man who is the focus of the manhunt. his identity is unknown. it is believed that he had explosion bud they failed to detonate. there were a total of three bombers at the airport. another one born in m morocco bt grew up in brussels and was there are a suspect in last november's pair ace at, the third suspect was ibrahim the belgian-born man had been deported from turkey last june but was later released by belgian police because i've lack of evidence. his brother carried out the sue aid bombing at the metro station and was also a paris suspect. jacky rowland reports from brussels. >> reporter: belgian police are urgently tracking the bomber that got away. here here they are removing evidence from a home. detonators and nails. the last known imag

as al jazeera's adrian brown reports now from northern china. >> reporter: the world's greatest aviation mystery has touched so many communities, rich and poor. this village is one of them. aadverts still call for some men to apply owner for work. he was one of the passengers on mh 370. last march on the first anniversary of the plane's disappearance his younger brother says he believes the plane was hijacked. he still believes it today. >> this has had a huge impact on our family. we will remain in this abyssive pain until the truth is discovered. >> family home was adorned with happy memories. but lu ling his wife has soon left the house, after a row with his parents. the result is their child is effectively a pawn in the bit are family feud over money. >> translator: she wanted to accept the compensation but my parents did not want to. so she took the son away and did not let my parents visit unless they gave her money so we grabbed the son back. >> this means his sister-in-law could now end one nothing. time has almost run out. the deadline for families to file a claim against malasi

adrian brown reports. >> it's not a place for surprises or displays of dissent. as always this was a tightly controlled political gathering where delegates rubber stamp decisions made in private by the leaders. >> we are full of confidence in the long-term good prospects of the economy. as long as we sit to reform and open up, china's economy would not see a hard landing. >> the prime minister holds one media conference a year. selected journalist gets to ask questions vetted in response. reform, i said, would be having to shut down more inefficient state-owned industries, a sensitive subject. >> we will press ahead to shut down inefficiency. >> her hesitating how hard to wield the axe. it said that the mining sectors could lead to unrest as happened in the northeast of the country this week. the china labor bulletin monitors industrial unrest in china and said that laid off workers are becoming more emboldened. >> many of them have been working for 10 years, 20 years, and they're entitled to quite substantial severance pay. if they don't get that, then there is

brown reports. >> reporter: president xi jinping made the rounds of state media recently. adoring journalists could barely contain their excitement. but as they gathered around him he issued his own blunt news alert, your job the president reminded them was first and foremost to serve the party. >> his purpose there was to say that the media has to fall in line with the central party which means him, that no decent is allowed in the media. >> reporter: online the adulation is even more forwarding. ♪ this song dedicated to the president says if you want to marry, marry someone like uncle xi jinping. the state news agency has turned to rap releasing a cartoon video to promote party slogans. ♪ the lyrics don't exactly roll off the tongue and the singer infuses it's every one's dream to build a moderate prosperous society comprehensively and analysts say president xi jinping regards himself as the most powerful leader. >> he is creating a cultive personality around him and the media and putting out an mowist style line of leadership where everybody has to line up with him.

adrian brown reports. >> reporter: this woman spends a lot of time alone, but at least she is safe now. safe from a husband who thought it acceptable to regularly beat her. >> translator: he hit my face. his mother was there, and did nothing. he is from a province where people think it is normal for husband to beat up his wife. >> reporter: he was careful not to mark her face. focusing his kicks and punches on her arms, legs, and back. she went to hospital twice and gave up on the police. >> translator: i went to the police and reported this incident, but the police told me this is family issue, so they did not take any action. >> reporter: there is still a stigma attached to domestic violence in china, which makes her a brave woman. until now she has not spoken publicly about her abusive marriage. but the story gets worse. after filing for divorce, her husband and mother-in-law came and took her son away. >> translator: he and his mother took my son from me by force. they beat me up in my neighborhood and grabbed him from me. my son was only two. i haven't seen him for two years. >> r

adrian brown reports. >> reporter: above the south china sea, heading for a speck of lant. taiwan's government had waited more than 50 years for this moment. to finally allow foreign journalists to see how taiwan is protecting and enforcing its sovereignty. tie ping is very small, just half a kilometer long and is dominated by the runway. to buttress its case, taiwan is spending more than a hundred million dollars upgrading the runway and the port. >> this is a natural formed island. sustainable and good for the living of the people according to international law, so the island enjoys the -- the rights of the island. it's not a rock. >> reporter: the tour was to try to prove that life here is becoming sustainable. the population is now almost 200. coast guard personnel mostly, as well as a few scientists and medical staff. this doctor will spending eight weeks year. >> lonely sometimes. but that's okay. i think two months is a -- a great period, not too long, not too short. >> reporter: taiwan's government says its sovereignty claim grants it rights over the surroubing wate

. >>> i'm adrian brown in china, where legislation that has been 20 years in the making is finally about to outlaw domestic violence. critics say, though, it doesn't go far enough. ♪ >>> we start with the u.s. presidential election and a day called super-tuesday. it's the most important single day in the long process to determine the republican and the democratic presidential candidates ahead of the polls in november. some say this election is proving to be the nastiest and the most contentious in history. here is felicity barr on the significance of super-tuesday. >>> super-tuesday, the day when multiple u.s. states decide who they want as their candidate. for the democrats it is a straight battle between hillary clinton, and the senator from vermont, bernie sanders, after her land slide win in south carolina, clinton has a strong lead over sanders. she needs 2,383 to win the nomination. it's a more crowded race in the republican camp. property tycoon and reality tv star, donald trump, texas senator, ted cruz, florida senator, marco rubio, retired neurosurgeon ben carson, and governor

. >>> i'm adrian brown in china and legislation that has been 20 years in the making is finally about to outlaw domestic violence and critics say it doesn't go far enough. >>> in sports news find out why some of the nfl biggest names are taking a time out in egypt. ♪ ♪ hello there and you are still with the news hour and i'm peter and police chiefs from greece and balkin states are going to discuss the growing refugee crisis and talk about monday's chaotic scenes where they fired tear gas at refugees and migrants. the police in france are dismantling a makeshift refugee camp in the city of calais for the second day and refugees and migrants staging protests there in attempt to lay further destruction. it's super tuesday when a dozen u.s. states will vote for their candidate to be the next president of the united states and it's a selling point in the democrat and republican campaigns and key indicator who is favorite for the white house. fighting racism will be one of the key issues during the election campaign in the states come november and last year democratic bernie sanders un

adrian brown is in beijing to tell us thousand candidates are perceived there. >> reporter: china's state controlled media appears to be even handed in its coverage, not favoring one candidate over the other. but political commentators and opinion-makers are having a field day seizing what they see is the dysfunction and destruction in the republican party. donald trump portrayed as a clown, an extremist a symptom of the disgust and distrust of the u.s. political system. bernie sanders soarn on the othd is getting pretty favorable coverage, his candidacy fits in with the government narrative of the united states being beset with the issues of racial and political inequality. and then you go to hillary clinton. if you go to social media sites she is perceived of being a china backer even though her husband is very popular here. someone riding ton coat tails of president barack obama. a mix in with criticism of the u.s. political system. >> adrian brown, beijing. >>> iranenians are wondering whairanians are wondering whattl legislators will be here. >> looking west with similar interest wil

adrian brown sent this report from beijing outside the gate hall of the people. >> reporter: top of the agenda this national people's congress is the economy. not surprising given all that's been happening here in china during the past few months. china's prime minister lee chong, draise addressthe group r nearly two hours, as well as giving an assessment of what happened in 2015. the premier's message was essentially this: complekly it has been a difficult year for -- economically it has been a difficult year for china but we have taken responsibility. it couldn't be ignored. also, being discussed at this national people's congress will be the economic blueprint for the next five years. some of the main points are these. the government wants to increase employment by 10 million jobs a year. it wants to create 50 million new jobs by 2020, and it also wants to accelerate the number of people leaving rural areas and moving into the cities. it says by 2020, it wants 60% of the population to be living if urban areas. huge challenges. challenges that the government seems confident it can mee

adrian brown reports now from northern china. >> the world's greatest aviation mystery has touched so many communities, rich and poor. the velg is one of them. adverts still encourage local men to apply. that is what he did. he was 1 of the 154 chinese passengers on mh 370. last march on the first anniversary of the jet's disappearance, his younger brother told me believe the plane had been hijacked. he still believes this today. >> this has had a huge impact on our family. this is endless store chur and pain. we will remain in this abusive pain unless the truth is discovered. >> a year ago, we also met his missing brother's wife and their young son. the family home was adorned with happy memories. but she has since left the house after a row with her inlaws over the airline's compensation offer. the vult th result is that the s a pawn. >> she wanted to accept the compensation but my parents did not want to. we grabbed the son back. >> reporter: this means his sister-in-law could now end up with nothing. time has almost run out. the deadline for families to file a claim against malasi

adrian brown reports. >> it's not a place for surprises or displays of disseptember. this was a tightly controlled political gathering where delegates once more rubber stamp decisions made in private by the leadership. a leadership that continues to insist that all is well with china's economy. >> we're full of confidence in the long term prospects of the economy. as long as we sit to reform and open up, they will not see a hard landing. >> the prime minister holds one conference a year. reform, he said, would be having to shut down more inefficient state-owned industries. a tensesive subject. >> we will press ahead to reduce capacity, but we must insure that the rice bowls of the workers are still there. or we must give them new rice bowls. >> in other words, the government is still hesitating about how hard to wield the axe. it worries that widespread redone adoptcies in the steel and mining sectors could lead to unrest as has happened earlier this week. the hong kong based china labor bulletin monitors industrial unrest in china and says that laid off workers are b

adrian brown, al jazeera, on taiping island. >> indonesia'indonesia's orangie facing extinction. >> these are the creatures playing the price. -- paying the price. >> trying to connect to creatures such as the orangutan. >> reintroducing a reintroduced orangutan into the wild. he's taking matters into his own hands. central sumatra the government to ensure the forests are not bulldozed. >> we have got a lease of everything north of here. this is front line to have the front line here. >> 34,000 hectares from a former logging station into a reserve for endangered animals. after training them to fend for themselves in the wild this is where they release orangutans who have been kept orphaned or illegally as pets. >> all 178 orangutans have gone back into the forest and inhabiting this forest at the moment. we hope to get a base of 200 to 500. ultimately we hope the population expands so there's 2,000 orangutans living if sustainable population he forever. >> reporter: now free to roam through the jungle, this population has already started breeding independently. >> i think living wild is o

adrian brown has the story. >> a big controversy as to what north korea did or didn't fire into the sea. military projectiles or shells. on friday, north korea said it carried out two ballistic missile tests roughly in the same area, and a few days before that, the north korean leader warned it was ready for a nuclear warhead test. we know that the north koreans have launched 15 projectiles and missiles of varying sizes. is this is deeply unsettling for china. china is the only friend that north korea has, practically. and sanction he are being imposed on north korea because about 70% of what that country receives passes through china. but of course, implementation is going to be issue. is china really going to be able to inspect every container and shipment bound for north korea? china says it doesn't believe that sanctions in themselves will bring the north koreans round. it says it wants to return to negotiation. but for the moment, the north koreans are simply ignoring those comments and continuing to dephi the international community. >> ten years ago today a software developer in

adrian brown, al jazeera, shanghai. >>> world record longest speech in parliament. the filibuster is into its eighth straight day now. it would allow intelligence services to collect the personal data of those suspected of posing a security threat. the opposition argues that the bill violates privacy rights. >>> the u.n. security council is set to vote to extend sanctions to north korea, tougher sanctions are in an attempt to squeeze north korea's revenue screens the pul to put a halt oe nuclear tests. >>> make or break for many in the travel to the white house. donald trump, main rival marco rubio, and his other rival ted cruz, soliciting votes in his home state of texas are working hard to defeat the billionaire businessman. further behind are john kasich and ben carson in the state of kentucky. about 880 delegates will be awarded in super tuesday, in the democratic race, about a third needed there. hillary clinton is leading the race with 543 delegates and is expected to win in most states. her opponent bernie sanders has been campaigning heavily in minneapolis.

al jazeera's adrian brown has the latest now from beijing. >> this was a very big protest. we haven't been able to independently verify some of the pictures we've seen on social media, but they chose minors clashing with police. miners with their families. they demanded to be paid saying in many cases they've gone for 12 to 6 months without being paid and without receiving benefits. is this a sign of what may to come as china embarks on this delicate task of trying to shut down loss making inefficient steal meals and mines. in the past the government has poured cheap money into the state-owned enter praises to prop them up, but that has the effect of creating more debt. the question is how horde do they wheeled their axe and it shows that they wielded the acts too hard. they had denied that the workers were owed money. they made that statement, and then backtracked saying that it was, in fact, a mistake which caused even more anger. >> scientists have spent five decades in search of life. what they have discovered is the presence of methane. they say that presence of the ga

adrian brown has an update for us. >> well, a big debate as to what the north korean military did or didn't fire. the south korean military is calling them projectiles, but it's the timing that is interesting. of course on friday north korea said that it carried out two about a his take missiles tests roughly in the same area. then a few days before that the north korean leader warned that his country's military was preparing for multiple ballistic missile launches and nuclear warhead tests. now since early february we know that the north koreans have launched 15 projectiles of varying sizes. this is deeply unsettling for china because china is about the only friend that north korean has and china at the moment is largely in charge of implementing the sanctions that will be imposed on north korea and are being imposed on north korea because 70% of what that country receives passes through china. but, of course, implementation is going to be the issue. is china really going to be able to inspect every container and shipment bound for north korea? china does not believe that sanctions

. >> reporter: i am adrian brown on a disputed island in the south china sea where, this time it's taiwan making waves in these troubled waters. ♪

adrian brown reports. ♪ >> it's not a place for surprises or displays of discent. as always this was a tightly controlled political gathering, where delegates would make decisions in private. >> translator: we are full of confidence in the long-term revival of the economy. >> reporter: the prime minister holds one media conference a here. selected journalists get to ask questions vetted in advance. on this occasion most concerned the economy. reform he said would mean having to shut down more inefficient state-owned industries. >> translator: we will press ahead to reduce capacity, but we must ensure that the rice bowls of the workers are still there, or we must give them new rice bowls. >> reporter: in other words the government is still hesitating about how hard to wield the axe. the hong kong-based china labor bullton monitors industrial unrest in china, and says laid off workers are becoming more emboldened. >> many have been working for 20, 30 years, they are entitled to a great deal of severance pay. >> reporter: the prime minister says he set aside $20 billi

. >> reporter: i'm adrian brown in shanghai t a symbol of china's economic might but the economy is in trouble so can consumers help? help? >>> welcome back top stories. north korea has fired several short range projectiles towards the east sea. it comes hours after the u.n. security council voted to impose tough new sanctions on pyongyang. malaysia's transport minister says he is working to determine if debris found off the coast of mozam bique is from mh37 mh370.long-term preparations for 100,000 stranded refugees. greece will have to be ready for the rival of even more says authorities. the speaker of brazil's lower house of congress has been indicted on charges of corruption. it is connection with the scandal of the oil company. the majority of the supreme court voted to accept the charges against him. it puts the speaker on trial for allegedly accepting bribes for contracts. the ruling must be officially confirmed at the end of the court session. >> reporter: the brazilian government has been in disarray for quite some time now. the highest sitting policitation to face corruption

from beijing here is adrian brown. >> reporter: president xi made the rounds of state media recently, adoring journalists could barely contain their excitement. but as they gathered around him, he issued his own blunt news alert. their job, the president reminded them, was first and foremost to serve the party. >> his purpose was to say that the media have to fall in line with the central party, which means him. that no descent is allowed in the media. >> reporter: online the adulation is even more fawning. ♪ >> reporter: this song, decaded to the president says in you want to marry, marry someone like uncle xi. the state news agency has turned to rap, releasing a cartoon video to promote party slogans. ♪ >> reporter: the lyrics don't exactly roll off of the tongue, the singer inthuzs, it's everyone's dream to build a moderately prosperous society comprehensively. >> he is creating a cult of personality around himself. he is dominating the media. he is putting out a -- a sort of mow-ist style line of leadership, where everybody has to line up with him. >> reporter: in the days lea

al jazeera's adrian brown has the latest from beijing. >> this was a very big protest. we haven't been able to independently verify the pictures we've seen on social media. but certainly they show miners clark with police, miners with their families incidentally. they protested demanding to be paid, going 12 to six months without receiving benefits or pay. a sign of what may be to come in the months and years ahead as china embarks on this delicate task of trying to shut down some of these big, loss-making inefficient steel mills and mines. in the past the government has simply poured cheap money into these state owned enterprises to prop them up and keep them going but that had the effect of creating more debt. the state has said that model can no longer continue. the question is how hard they wield their ax. it may well be that in this particular town they wielded the ax too hard. now the governor of this province had denied that the workers were owed money. he actually made that statement at the national people's congress in beijing, meeting at the moment but then he

around the world, starting with aal jazeera's adrian brown in beijing. >> china's state controlled media appears to be even handed in its coverage, not favoring one candidate over the other. but political commentators and be donald trump is portrayed as a clown and extremist, a symptom of the disgust and i distrust of the u.s. political system. bernie sanders on the other hand is getting pretty favorable coverage. one political analyst i spoke to says his candidacy fits in with the government's narrative of the united states being beset with the problems of racial and economic inequality. clinton. if you go to social media sites she is perceived as being a china-backer even though her husband remains very popular here, she is also seen as someone riding on the coat tails of president barack obama. so to sum up most chinese are adopting a wait and see attitude mixed in with criticism of the u.s. political system. >> most people here in iraq don't really care about the u.s. elections. they have their own problems here. specifically it comes to security, electricity shortages and getting pa

brown and china and north korea watching events closely and what action do we have of the latest action from pyongyang? >> debate of what they fired off the waters off the eastern coast on monday and north korea says they were missiles but they are calling them projectiles or possibly military shells but it's the timing of this that is so interesting because on friday north korea said it carried out two ballistic missile tests roughly in the same area and the north korea leader warned his military was preparing multiple ballistic missile launches and a nuclear war head test and since february we knew that north korea so far fired 15 missiles of varying shapes and sizes and all this of course is another bitter slap in the face for china and they are the only friend that north korea has and in charge of implementing the sanctions against north korea because so much of what north korea receives passes through china and the port is a busy place normally for exports to north korea but in recent weeks we are told trade there has begun to decrease but nevertheless it's going to be very hard fo

adrian brown >>> the u.n. is setting up a commission to investigate human rights conditions in south sudan. thousands of people have died in a civil war that began in 2013. more than two million people have been displaced. many of those forced out have fled to neighboring countries. sudan has taken the biggest share. our correspondent reports from white nile state. >> reporter: the south sudanese voted to split from sudan in 2011 hoping to end generations of conflict and persecution. a few years later thousands have returned to sudan desperate to escape the violence in their young country. >> translation: we voted for independence to end the oppression, but we came here to sudan to get safety. here we are not a refugee. we become citizens of sudan. >> reporter: the government policy is to treat south sudanese as citizens with the same rights as sudanese. the war was ignited over a rift between the president and his former vice president. both sides have been accused of massacring and displacing people along tr

adrian brown, al jazeera, shanghai. >>> and just a quick reminder, you can always catch up on all of the stories we are covering. plenty more for you on super-tuesday which is the day when several u.s. states decide who they want as their party candidate ahead of the u.s. presidential election. aljazeera.com. ♪ >>> it's super-tuesday, across roads in the path to the white house. front runners look to lock in the nomination. >> we are going to make america great again, greater than ever before. >> they have been after me for 25 years, and i'm still standing. >> a chance to breathe new life into campaigns fighting to stay alive. >> football is a spectator sport. democracy is not a spectator sport. >> elect m

adrian brown, al jazeera, northern china. >> north korea has said it could launch nuclear strikes against south korea and the u.s. in reaction to those countries joint military drills. the annual exercise will include 300,000 south koreans and 17,000 u.s. troops. the drill will last until the end of april as an excuse of holding invasion rehearsals while tensions have heightened in north korea's nuclear test in january and the launch of a missile in february. the tiny marshall islands in the pacific are taking on the world's nuclear powers in an unprecedented legal case. they say their lives were ruined by dozens of nuclear tests and arguing that the state's possessing nuclear weapons have failed legal obligations on disarmament. here is laurence lee. >> people pay a lot of money to go on holidays to places like this. but in decades gone by the world's nuclear powers use these beautiful atolls to test their capacity for global destruction. >> the united states government now wants to turn this great destructive power into something for the benefit of mankind. >> for one, the u.s. went to

political system >>> adrian brown in beijing there. we can go to kabul, the afghan capital. we understand that an attack is underway in the city of jalalabad. a number of blasts reported near the indian consulate there. tony, bring us up-to-date with what is going on in jalalabad. >> reporter: according to an afghan spokesman the attack is now over. he said that at least four attackers have been killed, two of them blew themselves up with suicide vests, bombs, and two were shot by the security services. it has been at a cost to the civilian population in that residential area. at least 16 people have been injured, some of them children, and one as young as one. it is now all over. there was a house next to the consulate which seems to have been the target dh was set on fire. that's where the last stand of the attackers was made. nobody has claimed responsibility yet, but this bears the hall marks of a taliban attack >>> it is not the first time that indian interests have been attack emd in afghanistan. -- attacked in afghanistan. >> reporter: no. the indians are viewed in so

. >> reporter: i'm adrian brown on a disputed island in the south china sea where this time it's taiwan making waves in these troubled waters >>> there is fear anger in brussels after tuesday's bomb attacks. there are unusual scenes on the streets of belgium. people are being frisked as they enter the metro stations >> i was very sad, of course, but now it's anger. a lot of people feel anger here. such barbarian attacks. we cannot understand why it is. everybody really feels anger and some people want revenge. it is not so good feeling here >>> there are now reports that a second attacker who took part in the metro attack is at large. this is the man at the airport. his identity is unknown. it is believed he had explosives but they failed to detonate properly. there were three would be bombers at the airport. he was born i morocco but grew up in brussels and was a suggestion expect in last november's attack in paris. the third was brahim el-bakraoui. he had been deported from turkey after being caught at the border last june but was released due to a lack of evidence. his brother, khali

. >> reporter: i'm adrian brown in shanghai. a symbol of china's economic might, but the economy is in trouble, so can consumers help? onsumers help? >>> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. south korea's defense ministry says project tiles have been filed fired from north korea. it comes after voting on toughest sanctions on the country in january. hillary clinton and donald trump have moved closer to winning their party's nomination for the race for the white house. the e.u. has pledged 760 million dollars in humanitarian aid to member states dealing with growing numbers of refugees. macedonia briefly opened its border with greece to let in about 200 but thousands more are still stranded >>> scientists in west africa are hoping to find ways of stopping the spread of zika virus. they're using similar technology used to detect ebola. >> reporter: this scientist and his team are in high demand. back in december they got a call from scientists in brazil asking for help with tackling the zika outbreak. they travelled t

first here is our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing >> reporter: china's state controlled media appears to be even handed in its coverage, not favouring one candidate over the other, but political commentators and opinion makers are having a field day seizing on what they see as the dysfunction and destruction in the republican party. donald trump is portrayed as a clown, an extremist, a symptom of the disgust and distrust of the u.s. political system. bernie sanders on the other hand is getting pretty favorable coverage, one political analyst i poke to said that his candidacy fits in were the government's narrative of the united states being beset with the problems of racial and economic inequality. then there's hillary clinton. if you go to social media sites, she is perceived as being a china backer, haven't though her husband remains very popular here. she is also seen as somebody riding on the kurt tails of president obama. to sum up, most chinese are adopting a wait and see attitude mixed with criticism of the u.s. political system >> reporter: it is here that the impact o

brown with more. >> reporter: the people's congress, the rubber stamp parliament approved the next five year plan and 13th since the foundation of the people's republic of china, the five year plans are very much a legacy of the command economy. after that happened china's premier met the media and happens once a year when he takes questions from selected journalists, questions which are generally vetted in advance and today most of those concern the economy and he was convinced there would be no hard landing for china's economy and said while there will be ups and downs if things got serious china's government has the means to deal with that and throwing more money in the system and touched on the sensitive issues with workers making state owned industries like the mines and steel mills and have been protests in the northeast of the country this week involving thousands of minors who say they have not been paid for weeks and the government knows it has to deal with these bloated enterprises and absorb billions of dollars of money and are incredibly inefficient so they are beginning to

brown has more details. >> reporter: his parting words which were published on his account, on china's a whiff lent of twitter basically said i can't stand it anymore. he said i can no longer follow the communist party and go down on my knees and that is very specific, very blunt language and it is a measure of the push back that you are seeing by a certain number of brave journalists who are not prepared to tolerate the current crack down on the media but, of course, this is china, there was only so much they can do. but we have to see this in the overall context of what has been happening in the country during the past few weeks. we have had 20 people who have disappeared as the police continue their hunt for the author of an he anonymous letter that appeared on the chinese media portal calling on the country's president to resign. the hunt for the author of that letter is intensifying. ping records the media as a tool of the government. it's very important that he controls the media. >>> brazil's tourism minister has resign ed in what's being seen as another blow for president dilma

brown reports. >> president xi jinping made the rounds of state media recently. adoring journalists could barely contain their excitement. but as they gathered around him he issued his own blunt news alert. their job, the president reminded them was first and foremost to serve the party. >> his purpose there was to say that the media have to fall in line with the strool part centry which means him, no dissent is allowed. >> on the line can, the adulation is even more alarming. this song, dedicated to the president, says, if you want to plearmarry, marry someone like e xi. the state influences agency has turned to rap to release party slogans. the lyrics don't exactly roll off the tongue, the singer infuses it is everyone's dream to build a moderately socialist society comprehensively. the leader considers himself the moss effective leader since chairman mao. >> he's putting out a maoist style leadership where everyone last to line up with him. >> reporter: in the days leading up to the national people's congress president xi ordered the party's 88 million members

adrian brown, al jazeera, shanghai. >> argentina has agreed a debt payment of $5 billion to settle a 14-year-old dispute. the country's finance minister will return to international finance markets and give money to pay off the rest of its debt. >>> venezuela's government has increased the minimum wage by more than 50% but despite the increases many workers still cannot afford a basic standard of living. virginia lopez reports now from caracas. >> the only way to save is to buy cars. in venezuela's inflationary economy means that cash is worthless. and assets like used cars which are negotiated in dollars, have become a way to save money. >> one has to find alternatives t. >> the government has increased the minimum wage at $9 to $14. for most people hiking their wage will make no difference. a clear sign of an inflationary economy is printing in organic money. right here there is the equivalent of the basic food basket. of in this substitutes the minimum wage of $14,000. this alone is worth 1,000. buying cars works for the middle class. but what of those who earn minimum wage doing?

on the anniversary, malaysia's prime minister issued a statement that read in part: adrian brown reports on the families of the passengers and crew. >> the world's greatest aviation mystery has touched many communities - rich and poor. the village in herbe province is one. adverts encourage local men to apply for construction jobs in south-east asia. that is what this person did. he was one of the 154 chinese passengers on flight mh370. last march, on the first anniversary of the jet's disappearance, his younger bother told me he believed the plane had been ijacked. he thinks that today. >> >> translation: this had a huge impact on the family, this is endless torture and pain. we'll remain as long as the truth is not discovered. >> reporter: a year ago we met his missing brother's wife and son. the family home was adorned with memories. lieuling left the house after a row with her in-laws over the airlines initial compensation offer. the result is her child is effectively a pawn in the bitter family feud over money. she wanted to accept the compensation that her parents did not want to.

adrian brown, al jazeera, northern china. >>> and still ahead, overcoming adversity on and off the court. the inspiring story of a basketball phenom battling a rare disease. ♪ >> so in los angeles, a rare thunder and lightning storm set palm trees on fire. and also patches of ice from hail that fell in the violent storms. heavy rain caused flooding all over california. >>> march madness is about to swiech the country. there is an inspirational story of a basketball player. andy roesgen explains. >> here is landis, in the paint. >> reporter: at first glance this 6'6" starting guard from florida has it all, a mean drive, quick feet, a killer three-point shot, but when the coach of the university of st. francis in illinois was considering recruiting landis andersson, something seemed off. >> i keep moving the phone like closer and closer to my face, and after a minute i'm like -- he is only playing with his left arm, like what is the deal here? >> reporter: andersson's has a neurological disorder that allows him just limited use of his right hand, but a disability, his mother was having n

our china correspondent adrian brown in the studio to discuss this resignation. adrian, it's most likely causing major headlines in china, isn't it? >> that's right. in china this is seen really as an extraordinary act of defiance, because his parting words, published on his weybo's account, the equivalent of twitter basically said i can't stand it anymore. i can no longer follow the communist party and go down on my knees. that is very, very specific. very blunt language, and it's a measure of the pushback you're seeing by a certain number of brave journalists who are not prepared to tolerate the current crackdown on the media. of course, this is china. there's only so much they can do. we have to see this in the overall context of what's happening in the country during the past few weeks. we've had 20 people who have now been -- disappeared as the police continue their hunt for the author of an anonymous letter that appeared on the chinese weybo media portal calling on the country's president to resign. the hunt for the author of that letter is intensifying. th

adrian brown has the latest now from beijing. >> reporter: this was a very big protest. we haven't been able to independently verify some of the pictures that we've seen on social media. but certainly they show miners clark with police, miners with their family incidentally. they gathered outside the offices of the mine on saturday demanding to be paid, saying in many cases they had gone from 12 to six months without being paid or receiving benefits. the question is this is what we have seen over the weekend a sign of what may be to come in the months and years ahead as china embarks on this delicate task of trying to shut down some of these big loss making inefficient steel mills and mines. choinl hachina has poured moneyo these establishments to keep them going but that model can no longer continue. so the question now is how hard they wield their ax and it may well be that in this particular town they wielded the ax too hard. now, the governor of this province had denied that the workers were owed money. in fact he actually made that statement at the national people's

adrian brown, northern china. >>> coming up next, the end of an era, as peyton manning retires, we look back at his legacy and the controversy. >>> maria sharapova is facing a ban from tennis after failing a drug test. she will be provisionally suspended starting march 12th. she tested positive for a drug that health officials say athletes benefit from increased endurance, speedier recovery from workouts, and she said she has been taking it for ten years. >> i wanted to let you know that a few days ago i received a letter from the itf that i failed a drug test at the australian open. i did fail the test, and i take full responsibility for it. >> she has five grand slam titles. she is the highest paid woman in sports. the drug was banned just last year. >>> peyton manning has retired after a stunning 18-year career, but he is leaving under a cloud. >> yes, good evening, john. whichever way you slice and dice this, this is the end of an era, because he exits the stage after a career that we also thought was flawless until the end. ever since super bowl 50 last month, the world has been wo

adrian brown, al jazeera, in northern china. >> a tiny marshall islands in micro nearby have a shah are taking on the world's powers. the islanders say their lives were ruined by dozens of nuclear tests. laurence lee reports. >> people pay a lot of money to go on holiday to places like this, but in decades gone by the world's nuclear powers use these beautiful atolls to test their capacity for global destruction. >> the united states government now wants to turn this great destructive power for something of a benefit for mankind. >> for one, the u.s. went to the island to persuade the locals that the tests would be for the global good. for nine years it was 67 nuclear tests. along the chain of islands. the marshallese islanders from past and present suffer the effects. >> i can go down the list of my wife's family. you don't have to go very far. and almost every marshall islander can do this. my wife' mother died from cancer. my wife's uncle died from thyroid cancer. >> and now it seems that national criminal court in the hague has to decide whether the nuclea international powers have

crossing to adrian brown who is in beijing. talk us through the launch of these and what the aim behind it is. >> reporter: >> reporter: ordinarily, north korea doing what it has done wouldn't cause too much excitement, but we have to see it in the context of what was in the past few weeks. it fired five missiles into the seas off its eastern coast. the south korea military says they're not sure about that. we're calling them projectiles or possibly military shells of some sort. just a few days of course on friday, north korea fired two ballistic missiles in the same area. a few days before that, the north korean leader said that his military was preparing for multiple ballistic missile launches and a nuclear war head test. so that's why there is this added anxiety on the korean peninsula today. is what happened on friday or monday a prelude to the big thing. this is what is keeping heads of states in seoul, washington and here in beijing. a short time ago the foreign ministry here gave one of its regular daily news conference.

this congress and know that to survive they need to unite between xi jinping in thought and action, adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >>> let's take a check on the weather now with everton and this heavy downpours in southern africa. >> that is right and we are talking drought for some areas but looking at really heavy rain across there and madagascar heavy rain and this massive cloud has been swirling away around the mozambique and in 24 hours and the day before and last two days 207 millimeters of rain and that has led to widespread flooding and extend across the south of madagascar and you can see the circulation just easing its way to the southern indian ocean and it will lead as we go on through the weekend and it will push out a little further east with bright skies trying desperately to come back in and heavy showers in madagascar and there are a few showers maybe up to the peaks and seeing wet weather as well and rain pushing up across zimbabwe to zambia over the last few days and up the rift valley and malawai and uganda and showers here and stretching from ethiopia highlands and

adrian: a bank robber leaves behind cash after hitting a daytona beach bank. surveillance video from the wells fargo on seabreeze boulevard shows the suspect giving the clerk a brown paper bag just after 9:00 this morning. police say a customer followed this man out of the bank and found that cash in the bushes outside the building. investigators aren' t saying whether the robber took off with more cash than what was found. he also hasn' t been caught. a convicted sex offender is once accused of having child porn. fdle agents arrested 49-year-old jesse william oller at his home on iona drive. investigators say they found he was downloading images of child pornography. he is also charged with violating his probation. and customers felt shaking and a little rumbling at a store but it wasn' ring. s beach store in clearwater beach today. city officials say hundreds of people were in the building, but no one was injured. the people standing outside on the second floor balcony when they felt the shift. hogan was holding an autograph signing, which was cancelled beca

adrian: thanks. a bank robber leaves behind cash after hitting a daytona beach bank. surveillance video from the wells fargo on seabreeze boulevard shows the suspect giving the clerk a brown paper bag just after 9:00 this morning. police say a customer followed the suspect out of the bank, and found the bag of cash in the bushes outside the building. investigators aren' t saying whether the robber took off with any more cash. so far, he has not been caught. orlando police are trying to find the shooter who sent one the shooting happened just before 2:00 a.m., not far from south john young parkway on lionel avenue. police tell us the victim is expected to be ok. they say the two know each other, and they expect to make an arrest. and tonight, we know the names of the suspects accused of robbing two women with a child out why the grocery store. the suspects are even accused of pointing a gun at the two-year-old, who was in the victim' s van yesterday outside the winn-dixie in deltona. the women fought back and chased after the suspects, crashing into their car. this is